diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.elife.k8s.yml b/.gitlab-ci.elife.k8s.yml
index 48a823b06d53952ea0c70e009db7aa997a2bb278..131fdd0e429cae9a8d33dce61edc471b87a65e5b 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.elife.k8s.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.elife.k8s.yml
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ deploy:
   #   - echo "${ELIFE_K8S_CLUSTER_CONFIG}" >> ~/.elife_k8s_config
   script:
       - |
-        sudo apt-get update
-        sudo apt-get install awscli curl wget -y
+        apt update
+        apt install awscli curl wget -y
         curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/`curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt`/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
         chmod +x ./kubectl && sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
         aws --version